Municipal Solid Waste Annual Report 2013-14 of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board
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Municipal Solid Waste Annual Report 2013-14 Of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board Page 1 of 35 ANNUAL REPORT (For the year 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14) Annexure – I [Schedule-I of Rule-IV(3)] The Board has constituted State Level Municipal Solid Waste Authorization Committee to verify the site selection criteria and to issue authorizations under Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000 in respect of City Corporations and Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). The Board has delegated the power to Regional Officers to verify the site selection criteria to scrutinize the technical details and to issue authorizations to all City municipal Councils, Town Municipal Councils and Town Panchayats and notified area in the State by stipulating condition to comply with Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, who have applied for authorization. The population of Karnataka according to the 2011 census is 61,095,297 making it the 9 th most populated state in India. The state is spread over an area of about 1,90,000 sq.km making it the 8th largest state in the country in terms area. The Government of Karnataka has re-constituted the municipality according to the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act. The towns have now been classified based on the classification and other criteria as Town Panchayath (TP) (Population with 10000 to 20000) Town Municipal Council (TMC) (Population with 20000 to50000) City Municipal Council (CMC) (Population 50000 to 300000) City Corporation (CC) (Population 3 lakhs and above) On this basis, at present number of local bodies in the state of Karnataka are as follows: Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike 1 City Corporations 10 City Municipal Councils 41 Town Municipal Councils 68 Town Panchayats 94 Notified Area CommitteePage (NAC) 2 of 35 5 Total 219 The following Urban Local Bodies do not have their own Landfill site or processing site: 1. Devanahalli TMC 2. Vijayapura TMC 3. Anekal TMC 4. Yelandur TP 5. Bantwal TMC 6. Mudabidiri TMC 7. Ullal TMC 8. Saligrama TP ACTION TAKEN BY THE BOARD TO IMPLEMENT THE MSW RULES. As per the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000 under Schedule-1, implementation schedule prescribing the time are also fixed. The Hon’ble Supreme Court has also repeatedly directed all the states to adhere to the implementation schedule. In this regard, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has pursued with the concerned department viz., Secretary UDD, Govt. of Karnataka, Director of Municipal Administration and more particular to commissioner, BBMP of Bangalore. Several Show Cause Notices were also issued and meeting were held with them. Inspite of this rigorous persuasion, the progress on the identification of scientific landfill sites itself were very slow and not satisfactory. The reasons quoted by the local body in identification and delay in acquiring these lands are not acceptable, as the litigation in acquiring such land have to be sort out by the deputy commission of the district. Under this background, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has invoked Section-5 of Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986 and issued the Directions to all the Deputy Commissioners in the State and also Secretary, UDD in respect of BBMP Page 3 of 35 (Metropolitan Area). Copies of the Directions issued to them are enclosed herewith as Annexure-D(1)(2). In response to the said Directions, the Deputy Commissioners and Secretary, UDD and Commissioner, BBMP have furnished TIME BOUND ACTION PLANs. Copies of the same is enclosed as TA-(1)(2). The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has closely monitored the progress made by the said local authorities through several meetings and reported the reasons for delays in the progress to the director of Municipal Administration, which is the nodal agency for release of funds to all this local bodies except BBMP. One of the main reasons for delay in take of the project were the administrative issues like resolving and deciding on the contractor under the expression of interest called individually by the local bodies. This could have been avoided, if proper monitoring and pro-active decisions were taken at the level of the Deputy Commissioners/DMA/Secretary UDD similarly for BBMP. As could be observed in the Time Bound Action Plan of the local bodies, the committed dates given by them are as follows: 1) BBMP - 31.03.2013 2) Other Local Bodies - 30.06.2011 The monitoring by the KSPCB has not yielded the complete result, however there are some progress in initiating certain projects and processing facilities. Out of which, abstract of the landfill sites status as on the date are as follows: (Other than BBMP). Land being used by MSW -- 209 Local bodies Land acquired but not being used -- 1 Local bodies Land not yet taken position -- 8 Local Bodies In respect of BBMP, Page 4 of 35 Bangalore generates around 3500 Tonnes of Municipal Solid Waste daily. The BBMP is carrying out collection, street sweeping, transportation, processing and disposal of the Municipal Solid Waste as per the Municipal Solid Waste Rules 2000. To encourage segregation at source BBMP has established 170 Dry Waste Collection Centres, which collect only dry waste from Wards. Bulk Generators of waste like Hotels, Restaurants, Kalyan Mantaps, Apartments etc., have been notified to establish a system to handle Municipal Solid Waste generated in their premises or through empanelled service providers. Seven sites have been identified for disposal of construction and demolition waste in the city. BBMP is also setting 13 decentralized Biomethenation Plants, out of which 4 have been made functional. After taking all these measures, the quantum of waste which being received at the BBMP processing centres is around 3000 TPD. The same is being managed through the Private Processors. Out of the above facilities, land fill without processing is being done only at Bingipura and Laxmipura facilities. To achieve 100% processing of waste, Government has sanctioned setting up of six new facilities. These new facilities are being set up at the following locations: 1) Kanahalli - 500 TPD 2) Seegihalli - 200 TPD 3) Doddabidarakallu - 200 TPD 4) Lingaderenahalli - 200 TPD 5) Subrayanpalya - 200 TPD 6) Chikkanagamangala - 500 TPD Page 5 of 35 7) KCDC(upgradation of existing facility) - 500 TPD 2300 TPD It is targeted to make these facilities fully functional within next 6 months. This would ensure 100% processing of waste being generated in the city. In addition to these, approvals have been given to following waste management plants on PPP framework. 1) M/s. Satarem Enterprises - 1000 TPD 2) M/s. Organic Waste India - 600 TPD 3) M/s. Essel Group - 600 TPD These plants are on PPP framework and would take minimum 2 years’ time to be established. Once all the above facilities are made fully functional, the city would have facilities catering to the requirement of Waste Management for next 10 years. The landfill sites existing so far – viz., Mavallipura, Mandur, Terra firma, Cheemasandra, Rajarajeshwarinagar (Subramanyapalya) and at Doddabidarakallu. The KSPCB has observed serious non-compliances on the BBMP in the management of Municipal solid waste and public complaints have been made on the water pollutions, air pollution and spillage of waste during the transport etc on the Mavallipura site. Hence, Board has issued directions to stop the activities till the existing old garbage are completely processed (Annexure MD1). Due to this the entire planning process at BBMP were changed and expert committees were formed to assist the BBMP in guiding them to make way forward. The situation in the Bangalore city has aggravated and Mandur Landfill sites have also reached the alarming situation on the disposal of leachate and other buffer Page 6 of 35 zone aspects. (Annexure- MD2) The criminal proceedings are also initiated by KSPCB against concerned officers. Therefore, the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka in its W.P.No: 24739/2012 has intervened in the management of BBMP and hence, monitoring the progress every month since two years. Many directions were issued by the Hon’ble High Court and also facilitated the BBMP in initiating the decisions to establish the new sites for both processing, landfilling, and exclusive C & D Waste disposal and recycle. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has also evolved the following guidelines in cohesive with the Hon’ble High Court directions; (1) Notification on the Guidelines for No development Zone/Buffer zone around the MSW landfill sites in the state of Karnataka, Dt: 05.02.2014. (Enclosed as Buffer Zone) (2) Notification on the Guidelines for Construction and Demolition waste in the ULB’s in the state of Karnataka, Dt: 05.02.2014. (Enclosed as C & D) (3) Notification on the Guidelines for Siting of Slaughter House in the state of Karnataka, Dt: 05.02.2014. (Enclosed as Slaughter House) (4) Notification on the Guidelines for Management of Municipal solid waste in Big campuses/Educational Institutions, Dt: 05.02.2014. (Enclosed as Big Campus) In view of this background, it was opined that the BBMP as a metropolitan city shall have the processing and engineering landfill sites on all the directions of the city so that, the non-operation of one of the LFS will not affect the others in the city. So that, at any circumstances the collection, transportation processing and disposal would be continuous in nature on odd times. The basic concept of source segregation from the households would be on the top priority. The segregated waste are transported independently and the organic waste are Page 7 of 35 processed in the processing plant in every ward and non-organic segregated waste are collected in the dry waste collection centres established in 170 collection centres of 198 wards in BBMP.